Product Designer
Location: US, CA, Menlo Park
Department: Product
Employment type: Full-time
Function: Design

Company profile:
Interana is for interactive exploration of event data. With a simple, interactive interface, Interana enables people to monitor, investigate, and make data driven decisions in real-time. By combining a purpose-built data store with a simple, interactive visual interface, Interana provides real-time answers from billions of events, without SQL or complex query languages. This powerful engine doesn’t require aggregations or summarization, giving users access to raw data for unlimited ad hoc analysis and exploration. 

Job description:
Interana is an exciting VC-backed startup building a game-changing analytics platform. We make Big Data Analytics interactive by allowing people to quickly, flexibly and visually iterate through precise questions in pursuit of insights about how products are used and how customers behave. The speed, scale, and design is unlike anything ever offered in this space. We’ve taken an innovative approach to developing our technology and seek to do the same with our product experience.  Our platform will be as pioneering in its technology as it is in its data visualization, overall beauty and ease of use.We are fast-growing, and have an extremely passionate and experienced team who have built data tools and systems that scaled from millions to billions of users for some of the biggest names in the business. We’ve worked in unique company cultures like Facebook, Google and Flipboard and understand the value of being human centered, design driven and technically innovative.  At Interana, we’re doing the same and looking for people who are inspired to build a great product and company grounded in these principles.

Requirements:
You’ll collaborate closely with product management and engineering through human centered design approaches to define Interana’s roadmap, prototype product features and build a great data product. You should have an innate sense for using human centered design methods to turn enterprise grade technology into a consumer grade product experience that’s elegant, intuitive and sticky. You’ll conduct ongoing market research, user ethnographies, design and prototype new features with the UI team and work closely with end users for feedback. Under your watch our product will become as powerful as it is intuitive and beautiful.  It’s a great opportunity to define new product interactions and visualization paradigms that make data easy to work with and part of people’s daily workflow.Exceptional candidates will have:Passion for big data, data visualization and complex interaction designAt least 5+ years experience on a product or user experience team for a web applicationAbility to strategize about market position, feature set, and product differentiationAbility to conduct user research to identify key needs, behaviors and work flows for product developmentAbility to rapidly concept through hand sketches, Sketch, OmniGraffle, Photoshop, or other design toolsAbility to rapidly prototype, gain user feedback and iterate accordingly to create a user centered product experienceFamiliarity with agile development and design thinking methodologiesFluency with web and mobile design principles and best practicesTalent for being a human centered design leader with strong collaboration and communication skillsDesire and ability to quickly take on new tasks, responsibilities and learn new skills to bring a great product to market and rapidly evolve and scale itExceptional candidates will have:Degree in Computer Science, HCI, or Design, or equivalent experienceDribbble or Behance portfolioPortfolio or other track record of design thinking product leadershipExperience building enterprise brands and go to market strategiesDemonstrated excellence in a domain outside product design

Benefits:
Company-paid health insurance premiums (medical, dental and vision) for you and your familyPaid vacation and company holidaysMeaningful equity for all employeesFully stocked kitchens with drinks, snacks and candyAutomatic Jura espresso machine with Blue Bottle coffeeThe option of an adjustable standing deskShiny Apple products